Like lots of young girls, Anne was a big influence on my life. I read the Anne books so many times, my copies eventually fell apart.

I love Anne. I love that she did not have a perfect life. I love that she cares so deeply how her name is spelled, and desired to spend the night in a spare room. I love her imagination and big words. I love her red hair and freckles, and I even love the way she does not love them. All of those things work together to make a character who is strong, sweet, and relatable.

When I saw the Trifecta Challenge, this was on my mind, and I knew I needed 33 words from Anne. These words are spoken after she buys hair dye from a peddler, and in trying to dye her hair a raven black ends up with tresses of dull, bronzy green.

Messing with Anne's hair is never a good idea.

*Big props to Thomas for reading through Anne of Green Gables with me tonight to find this quote. It is much harder than you would imagine to find an exact 33 words.

"My tongue must be hung in the middle, it flaps so!" Thank you so much for picking one of the greatest Canadian books ever written! We have Anne dolls in the girl's bedrooms, Anne of Green Gable novels and storybooks plus, we have a movie poster with RED-HAIRED Megan Fellows as Anne, hanging in the girl's playroom! Not sure who the blonde with the come-hither look on the new book jacket is supposed to be. Anne is a lot of things but, sexy trollop, she is not! Anne of Green Gables is a wonderfully-inspired choice. Thanks for making my day!

Why?! Ugh... That stuff with the cover irritates me. It annoys me as bad as when they cast a beautiful woman to play the role of a 'plain looking' character. I love Anne Shirley as a character. They had no right to change her like that.

Right? I don't understand why book cover designers and movie casters don't follow the descriptions in books. Us readers have carried around a mental picture of the characters we loved based on the author's description, and when they mess with that, it ruins the whole book cover or movie.

ICK!!! Why do some publishers think stories must me modernized???? I still remember reading these - and Cherry Ames - and even the Bobbsey Twins (why, yes, I AM that old) No need to modernize. Sad. The lessons within are really age-old.

I completely agree with absolutely everything you posted, from all the things you love about Anne and how it affected my life, down to the travesty of that book cover. WHO on earth was in charge of going the extra mile to read the book before planning the cover shoot? hehe :)

I read this on Jezebel earlier this week and I was incredulous. Did you see the other covers? WTF are they thinking. OMG! The Bell Jar cover is just, it's just, it's it's just, I don't even have words for it.

I've never read the book, but I agree the cover is a travesty. It looks like a terrible stock image. It's worse than those terrible covers that always seem to end up replacing proper covers of movie-tie in books.

I'm appalled! Anne has been a huge part of my life and of my daughters' - we have spent many summer vacations on PEI and have done just about every imaginable Anne activity there is to do there. Not sure how anyone could have thought that this was an appropriate book cover!

OMG. I said to my husband today, "Maybe tonight, we'll have way too much wine and sit around looking for the most perfect 33 words ever." He said, "Ummmmmmmmmm. I think you forgot that tonight's poker night." Sigh.

That girl is ridiculous. And not Anne. Good for you for calling her out. This needs more attention.

The cover looks like the cover of a 70's pin-up calendar you'd see on a cop show in the 70's. (Yes, I'm old and I watched a lot of TV in the 70's.) There is nothing that says "Anne" on the cover except the book title. I'm glad the copies I have for my daughter are the old versions. Is it any wonder that women (and men!) have so many body image issues these days when we're bombarded with images like that for even the most innocent of things? Grrrrrrr.....

O.o :O and all other sorts of emoticons that express my complete horror--as you know Anne has always been my very favorite books in the world--and I completely agree with everything you said...and this, this OUTRAGE is just gross, sick, and wrong... :( :( :(